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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lightweights (6:15.90) locked up its sixth Secretary of the Navy Cup with a three boat length trouncing of the University of Toronto...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: M. Lightweight Crew Wins; Heavies Second | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...case-by-case basis, then scuttle rules it doesn't like by majority vote within 45 days. The message was clear: slow down. "This is a classic example of the pattern we've seen this entire session," says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The House is the hot cup of coffee, and theSenate is the saucer that cools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SENATE PUTS BRAKES ON REGULATORY REFORM | 3/29/1995 | See Source »

Other techniques are more reminiscent of MITthan Harvard. For instance, Gregg Phillips '98employed a "five-man butter-launcher" described byhis awed roommate as" eight rubber bands connectedto a central cup...

Author: By Ann D. Schiff, | Title: harvardian superstitions | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

...just 2 min. 22 sec., Australia's $3 million entry in the America's Cup trials broke in half in rough seas off San Diego and sank to the bottom of the Pacific. All 17 crew members were rescued. Team official sent an older boat into the races to replace the sunken sloop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: MARCH 5-11 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...page advertisement in the Washington Post said DON'T LET HER SEASON END IN A LAWSUIT. But the horse the conservatives rode hardest was the case of the elderly woman who was awarded $2.9 million in a judgment against McDonald's after she burned herself with a McDonald's cup of coffee (the payoff was reduced on appeal to $480,000). As Suffolk Law School professor Michael Rustad told TIME, despite the perception out there of vast monies changing hands in these cases, only 10% of punitive-damages awards of more than $10 million are paid; 90% are reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE THE TORTS BLOSSOM | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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